Improvement in compositions for coating candles



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CAMPBELL MO'RFIT,

on NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOSITIONS FO COATING CANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 26,780, dated January 10, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CAMPBELL MORFIT,

chemist, of the city of New York,in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and improved method of imparting a hard closely-adhering glaze to the surface of candles made from tallow, stearine, or other fat stock; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full and exact description of it.

The advantage obtained by my process is the production of handsome and economical done,the temperature of the bath is then raised to 232 Fahrenheit, and immediately afterward allowed to-fall to 205 Fahrenheit by repose and shutting 011' the current of steam. At or about this degree of heat the candles, whether i of tallow, stearine, or other fat stock, molds or dips, are then quickly immersed their wholelength in the bath-and as quickly drawn out, one dip being sufficient to insure the'requisite coating. There is very little dripping from the butts of the candles, and the hardening of the surface is so prompt that the candles are ready for packing after having hung afew minutes. The bath should not be allowed to fall very much below 175, because a higher temperature not only improves the gloss, butcements the coating to the boily'of the candle. The coating-surface is free from resins, and as-.

similates in all necessary respects to the mate-.

circumference formed just below'fth'eflignited wick, and by thus Welling in the melted tallow prevents running and gutterin-g of the candle bath are parafiine, (whatever its source and v the mode by which it-is produeed,) either alone or'in admixture with pallnitic, fstearic, or any other solid fat acid candle-stock, singly or combined, and with Japan (vegetal) wax, the proportions which have proved'most favorable being set forth in the following formulas v No. 1; Paraifine, fifteen pounds; palmitic candle-stock,- five pounds. a

No. 2.- Parafline, sixteen pounds; palmitic candle-stock, four pounds.

No. 3. 'Parafine, four and one-half pounds; palmitie candle-stock, six pounds; 1 apan wax, three .pounds. I

No. 4. Paraifine,ten pounds; pahn'itie'candle-stock,fonrpounds; Japan wax, five pounds.-

ldo notclaim the processof coating candles, .nor yet the use of stearic acid or other matters in alcoholic solution as apai-nt-"covering for The covering of tallow," stearine, or other candleswith parafine or par'affine mixtures,

appearance and burning qualities.

Witnesses:

L. D. GALE,1 Enivi. F.'BROWN.

by overflow. The materials of the dipping-t tallow candles, nor, again, the coating of talsubstantially as set forth, for the purpose of j hardening their surface and -improving their CAMPBELL MORFIT. 

